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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 12:5 - 12:5
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Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath - by doing “servile work.”
and are blameless? - The double offerings required on the sabbath day (Num 28:9) could not be presented, and the new-baked showbread (Lev 24:5; 1Ch 9:32) could not be prepared and presented every sabbath morning, without a good deal of servile work on the part of the priests; not to speak of circumcision, which, when the child’s eighth day happened to fall on a sabbath, had to be performed by the priests on that day. (See on Joh 7:22, Joh 7:23).